things to go with veal 008   Kashmiri Rice

8 servings

Ingredients

3 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons finely chopped onion

1½ cups long-grain rice

2¼ cups Veal Broth or chicken broth

¼ cup currants
1 strip of lemon peel
1 bay leaf
½ teaspoon stem saffron
Salt to taste
 

Directions

Preheat the oven to 400 °F.
Use a heavy saucepan with a tight-fitting lid.

Melt one tablespoon butter in the saucepan and add the onion.

Cook, stirring, until onion is wilted.

Add the rice and cook, stirring, about thirty seconds.

Add the remaining ingredients except butter and bring to a boil.
Cover and place the saucepan in the oven. Cook exactly seventeen minutes.

Uncover and stir.

Keep covered until ready to serve.

Discard the bay leaf.

Fluff the rice with a fork and stir in the remaining butter.